There is no one who would describe that as "surveillance" and I'd expect you to know that.

Voluntarily divulging information in order to make use of a service is obviously completely fine.

Turning around and selling that information is not.

Augmenting that information with additional data from across multiple sources--whether that data is voluntarily or involuntarily divulged--is also not fine.

Buying and selling those augmented datasets, also not fine.

And that is what Meta, Google, and so many of these other companies do. That's what surveillance capitalism is.

> No, it's probably that I'm not as injected in the internet as you, probably. You can easily live a very full life and barely use the internet, let alone Facebook.

Frankly, that suggests to me you're the outlier, not me.

Facebook has nearly two billion worldwide daily active users.

WeChat is used every single day in parts of the world not just to communicate with people but to engage in basic daily commerce.

WhatsApp is the way countless individuals stay in touch with friends and family.

You might be oddly disassociated from big tech and the internet, and thus it may be very easy for you to have a cavalier attitude about surveillance capitalism.

Most folks absolutely are not.